Not that I’ve really mentioned our progression before, but we finally got our shit together and netted ourselves a LK kill a couple weeks ago. I don’t understand why we had a mental block, but after seeing the fight for about 22-24-ish hours we finally got it and were able to execute.
As a side note – It is SO irritating to go searching for tips and tricks that might help your guild only to see that every other person who is posting about what their guild did isn’t having the same issues. Even worse, is that those people make it sound like they just danced through our “problem child” phase only to get stuck later.
Anyway, hooray for us! LK is dead neener neener neeners!
As with all things, there was an equal and opposite reaction. That day was the catalyst for a few of our newer members to decide that they were just bored with the game and so they decided to quit. Not to harp on the subject (oh fuck it, this is my biggest pet peeve in game), but none of them said anything about it. Not a peep. One of them was actually in tells with another of our officers chatting for most of the raid and a decent portion of time afterwards about how happy he was that he transferred and joined us. So happy in fact that he fell off the face of the earth and along with the other 3-4, stopped responding to PMs, emails sent to whatever address they used to register on the forums, and weren’t even responding to their friends that they had gamed with for a year and a half prior to transferring as a group to join us.
Seriously, how hard is it to find your balls and give the guild a heads up?
I admit it; I fall into the trap of taking recruitment and handling the new people way too personally. We’re a progression-oriented guild; we’re not going to be out there getting world first kills, but we are bumping along quite nicely at around 1200-ish world. But part of that, is that I’m clearly not cut-throat enough. When people disappear with no warning, I assume that something happened that’s preventing them from getting in game. I don’t immediately kick them and open recruitment for their spot. Hell, I’ve had my fair share of job-hell, family dying, and just those times in your life when you want to hide under a rock for a while and wait for it all to blow over, and if I wasn’t kicked even though my attendance dropped (though to be fair, I gave notification with the exception of one time) how can I go and kick people just because they aren’t as tied to the forums as I am? Well, we finally found out that two of the four sold their accounts since they were so bored with the game (yay for them also being in the raid when we killed LK so they got their “I beat the game” moment : / ) and another is probably selling as well. /gkick /gkick /gkick Once again, recruitment has kicked in and we’re in a major cycle.
To that note, for those of you who have been recruiting (or were even just raiding) for a long time – back in Vanilla leading up to the TBC release, or even just during TBC leading up to the Wrath release – are you seeing the same patterns in recruitment posts from individuals as you did during the incipient expac releases? It seems to me that more and more posts are of people who are maybe halfway through ICC25, but want to join HM guilds or “top 100” guilds. It feels like the ICC buff/nerf has hastened the expansionitis that people are feeling and they perceive Cataclysm is going to be released ASAP. Other than that observation, recruitment is going fairly well. Of course it helps that even though we’re looking for quite a few people/classes to fill in the holes, we’re still progressing in ICC25HMs and are currently 5/12.
More Splinters than Feathers 